Bloomberg-Funded Gun Control Group Releases List of “School Shootings” since Newtown, Immediately Debunked

Trying to capitalize on the recent high profile shooting incidents in the news, the Bloomberg funded gun control group Everytown fro Gun Safety released a list of 70+ “school shootings” that they claim happened since the Newtown tragedy. The implication is that if we had just “done something” (AKA banned guns) then these incidents would have been averted. But before the ink on the press release was even dry, over half of them had been thoroughly debunked . . .

The disclaimer at the bottom of the list should tell you everything you need to know.

Data: Incidents were classified as school shootings when a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds, as documented in publicly reported news accounts. This includes assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings. Incidents in which guns were brought into schools but not fired there, or were fired off school grounds after having been possessed in schools, were not included. This list includes incidents meeting the above criteria that were brought to our attention after our School Shootings Analysis was issued on February 10, 2014. Incidents were identified through media reports, so this is likely an undercount of the true total.

When you think “school shooting,” the classic Columbine-style attack is what springs to mind; a guy with a gun indiscriminately killing people. But that’s not what Bloomberg’s group is presenting. They include in their count not only typical “school shooting” attacks, but actually stretch their definition so far as to include any time a firearm was discharged on school grounds.

Police officer accidentally pulls the trigger in his squad car with no injuries? According to Bloomberg’s gun control group, that counts as a “school shooting.”

That’s only one of the issues with Bloomberg’s methodology. In short, though, the whole thing boils down to this list including:

I’ll update the list as more information comes in. But it looks like fewer than seven of these seventy-four instances could be called “school shooting” using the common sense criteria of “spree shooter in a school.” Even fewer reach the Bloomberg-supported definition of “mass shooting.” It looks like Bloomberg and his cronies can’t even assemble a list of school shootings long enough to warrant an article without padding the stats and misrepresenting the facts.

I vote brazen. Well, I mean they did make it into People magazine after all. Oh, and some news (softball style) interview. So yeah, that is pretty big time right there. Time to step up the game with even more easily debunked sensationalism!

The leaders have got to know it’s all BS. Their followers, however, are just taking all of it in, believing every word, with no filtering or doubting anything their leaders tell them. And the large number of followers are the real danger.

I sent this off to Politifact as soon as I saw it. They’re generally left leaning, and sometimes appallingly biased, but they tend to call bullshit when they see it too. I predict this gets “half true” at the very best.

Is anyone really surprised? They know that they’re in the wrong so they’ll do whatever they can to turn the tide which obviously involves lying. What I assume is, in their eyes, they feel that most or at least some people will take their bogus statements at face value and parrot it out to other people and different forms of media and overtime people will cite it as fact. I cannot wait for the next elections where some of these knuckleheads get voted out so people can stop referring to gun owners as a “vocal minority”.

So she’s literally got the blood on her hands of countless poor South American and Indian farmers who lost everything and in some cases comitted suicide after ending up with sterile plants and poisoned soil where nothing but Monsanto seeds they couldn’t afford would grow? Add to that the blood of the starved families and women and children driven off the farm and into prostitution. That’s ironic.

I love the Net. But…back in the day, you had some level of vetting done before something actually made it into mainstream media. Now, with instant this and instant that, any press release, any “statement of fact” is treated as though it’s “the truth” without a shred of investigation.

The Bloombergs and Watts of the world know this and they can lie and manipulate with reckless abandon. They’ll make front page news; the corrections or retractions, which almost never happen, end up buried.

“Incidents were identified through media reports, so this is likely an undercount of the true total.”

Given the media’s reluctance to report DGUs this may well be true.

Everytown for Gun Control appears to be populated solely by Hysterical Mothers who will say anything. You do have to admire their work ethic, they make things up faster than MSNBC and the New York Times combined. If George Orwell is watching from above (or below) he must be proud.

Every major news outlet, plus the president, swallowed this uncritically. When I saw the number 74 in the headline at HuffPo yesterday, I knew it was going to be bullshit. Anyone with common sense who keeps up with news knew that figure had a bad smell to it. Thanks to Johnson for doing journalism, since no one in the MSM cares to anymore.

Hmm. Interesting. Looks like CNN only saw 15 as true school shootings. That means Moms demad Action and Everytown were only exaggerating by about (74 divided by 15) 500%!!
Were these not the same people saying that the Boston marathon bomber was a “gun violence” victim?

1) Actually, Nick, MDA say they are excluding off campus shootings. True, they seem to have been a little over-inclusive.
2.) As for including suicides, MDA has always included suicides in their “gun violence” definition as a way of padding their stats.

If abortion counts as a death, wouldn’t miscarriages as well? It’s almost as if abortion opponents don’t actually give a shit about life and death and only care about accusing the other side of murder while advancing their political agenda at any cost.

If they’re so much in favor of life, then why aren’t they camped out on the White House steps demanding an end to the wars? No, they want to ensure a supply of cannon fodder who can be aborted in their 78th trimester in some god-forsaken desert half-way across the world.

Huh, for being the so called “good guys” they really are stretching the stats.
They’re trying to “make a difference” by outright lying…Like they’ve done before.
Hmm, really shows how wrong they are when pretty much every time they come out with more “stats” those stats are more twisted than a bag of pretzels.

That’s not padding, misleading, or anything else you want to say to take the edge off. It’s lying. Plan and simple lying. Like the president, congress, school teachers, and half the rest of the people in politics. Lies.

Rather ironically I just had this conversation on FB debating this with my cousin.

The total may not actually be 74, but it is close. I guess the real question is, what is the ideal number of mass shootings you’re looking for if 7 isn’t it? I honestly think you have a problem if you are jumping to the defense of objects designed to kill people before defending the rights of children to not fear for their lives in school. I like guns. I think the mechanics are fascinating. I am also afraid of being shot in traffic every day by someone who thinks I’m driving too slow, or because I think social democracy is a good idea, or because of my religious beliefs. I am a white, male, Vermont native, and I have to be that afraid of guns? Screw that, and screw everyone who thinks guns make things safer.

While I don’t want my kids to live in fear I have no clue how to relate to this thinking. I don’t believe I live in fear, I believe I’m prepared for the bad and unpredictable things that are part of being alive.

Yes WE all know it’s BS. BTW my favorite gun shop( Blythes) is in Griffith,Indiana. I don’t have the slightest recollection of a so-called school shooting there in April. What a load of s@@t. For the children…

Some how I don’t think even most of those happened with in a block of a school… why don’t they list drunk driver fatalities, Rapes, knifing, non-firearm related suicide, etc… Just more garbage for the septic tank to deal with..

They had a similar list a few months ago on their facebook page…I picked 5 at random and researched them. Everyone I looked at had nothing to do with kids, mostly were just two adults somewhere in the rough area of a school. 4 of the 5 were people in their 30’s or older. They were just trying to call anything a “school shooting” for publicity. When I questioned this on their page, I was promptly banned for telling everyone what was really in the Kool-Aid.

We know the general public is comprised of stupid, low information mouth breathers who believe anything they’re told because decades of numbing complacency have dulled their ability for critical thought.

The antis know the general public is comprised of stupid, low information mouth breathers who believe anything they’re told because decades of numbing complacency have dulled their ability for critical thought.

The difference? We seek to educate the public, however futile that may be. They seek to deceive and control the public.

They know exactly what they’re doing, and the MSM played right into their hands. As I’ve always said, the “gun control” debate is about good versus evil, plain and simple, with legions of idiots acting as jury through votes.

The biggest mistake this country ever made was giving everyone the right to vote. The founding fathers were against it, look it up.

I haven’t looked at every entry here, but #52 was not “off-campus”, it was in the school parking lot. And if it was during the basketball game, arguably it’s not “after hours”. And does it really matter that it was a “personal dispute”?

I 100% agree that MDA is using mischaracterizations and outright lies in a lot of their propaganda, but we have got to be 1000% more careful not to do the same, or even approach the appearance of doing so. We have enough numbers on our side that it’s completely unnecessary.

I was thinking something similar… how is a gang shooting in a school not a school shooting? A gang shooting makes perfect sense at a school. Cowards can pull out a gun and not expect resistance in the gun free school zone.

It is really low of them to classify things like the domestic violence against an Asst Principal as a “school shooting”.

I was looking at these today. I believe the first one was a dad shot by someone while dropping his kids off at school, in the parking lot. Seems like a case of ‘we know where he will be in the morning so lets get him there’. I think it might have been #4, a guy shot his ex-gf, her dad and cousin in the parking lot of a college when she was there to swap custody of their 2 year old child. My guess is he shot dad and cousin just because they were there, and it could have happened in a library parking lot just as easily.

I got about halfway through the list and found about 5 that might qualify as a more random type of school shooting, meaning more than one target or random targets. Lots of these are one guy shot another guy because they were pissed at each other or had some other type of altercation.

In some cases they are legit, kid bringing shotgun into the gym and shooting multiple kids. But is that worse than if he had done some kind of Boston Marathon type bomb in his backpack? If he got the shotgun in, that would imply no metal detectors etc. in a crowded gym that would have a much more devastating impact.

Hmm. Interesting. Looks like CNN only saw 15 as true school shootings. That means Moms demand Action and Everytown were only exaggerating by about (74 divided by 15) 500%!!
Were these not the same people saying that the Boston marathon bomber was a “gun violence” victim?

Again, proper use of statistics in thrown out the window – a favorite tactic of those whose conclusions are not supported by the the numbers. Lack the numbers, no problem, just make then up, be loud and the masses will believe it.

Shannon and Bloomie’s mug shots should be in the dictionary right by the definition of “Heteroscedasticity”.

I hope nobody flames me because this is a legitimate question: why does it look like the majority of these “incidents” (putting aside the fact that they are not “school shootings” as the media likes to glamorize) are occurring in gun friendly states? I’ve heard several times about how this kind of stuff doesn’t happen near as much in gun friendly states but I see a number of them up there that I believe are fairly open towards gun ownership and possession; and very few in states such as California, New York, Maryland and New Jersey. In fact if I counted right, I only counted four. I’m really asking so hopefully nobody takes offense to this!

For Chris:
The list seems to have more incidents in gun friendly states due to a random selector “firearm incidents near a school”. In a single night (or maybe two) in Chicago IL (very unfriendly towards guns) more people will die or be injured by firearms than the total number of people in this list.

Please tell me that all of you gun haters really don’t think that banning guns will stop violence, if you do then I feel sorry for you, it is not good to be walking around and being that totally stupid, just sayin’…